Doesn't HIPAA restrict this? You can voluntarily tell anyone what you want about your health, but requiring people to disclose seems illegal. Like asking if someone has HIV is illegal, except in a personal level. Making someone disclose their vaccination status to enter a restaurant seems illegal.
Yeah it covers that, but i thought it was guidelines about safeguarding private health info in general. Like you can't disclose to family members at times. But maybe that's another law.
When i was in s hospital even the slip that came on the food tray with what i ordered had a warning that it couldn't be discarded in regular trash because it had private health information.
All you really could actually do is infer that if someone had a certain diet, they might have heart disease or something like that. But the lawyers made them protect the info. The next time I was in, they changed to where the name was at the top and they tore it off when delivering the food. So the slip was no longer private health info.
Doesn't HIPAA restrict this? You can voluntarily tell anyone what you want about your health, but requiring people to disclose seems illegal. Like asking if someone has HIV is illegal, except in a personal level. Making someone disclose their vaccination status to enter a restaurant seems illegal.
Isn't HIPAA mostly concerned about sharing of protected health information between providers and insurance companies?
Yeah it covers that, but i thought it was guidelines about safeguarding private health info in general. Like you can't disclose to family members at times. But maybe that's another law.
When i was in s hospital even the slip that came on the food tray with what i ordered had a warning that it couldn't be discarded in regular trash because it had private health information.
All you really could actually do is infer that if someone had a certain diet, they might have heart disease or something like that. But the lawyers made them protect the info. The next time I was in, they changed to where the name was at the top and they tore it off when delivering the food. So the slip was no longer private health info.